Chris Rene

The grandson of Leon René (songwriter of early R&B songs “Once the Swallows Get back to Capistrano,” “Rockin’ Robin,” and “I Sold My Heart towards the Junkman,” amongst others) and son of Googie Rene (a recording artist who assisted Leon using the operation from the Course label), Chris Rene spent his teenage years in California being a guitarist and vocalist in Diversion. The music group released an unbiased record in 2000 but divide a couple of years afterwards, before it had been able to comprehensive a follow-up. Rene proceeded to go the solo path and released Soul’d Out, having a audio that mixed modern rock and roll, R&B, and rap, in ’09 2009. Being a contestant over the United State governments’ first period from the X Aspect, Rene — at that time a waste materials collector who acquired just finished a 30-day time program for conquering drug and alcoholic beverages dependencies — auditioned along with his personal “Adolescent Homie” and worked well his method through your competition by carrying out tracks by Marvin Gaye, the authorities, Bob Marley, and Alicia Secrets. He managed to get to the ultimate but completed third. The vocalist subsequently authorized a recording agreement with Simon Cowell’s Syco label (through Epic) and released “Youthful Homie” (made by J.R. Rotem) in March 2012. The music fell just timid from the Billboard Popular 100 graph and preceded his second single album, planned for release later on that year.